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In the second week after the holidays, the Department of Home Affairs released the official invitation data from the 18 December 189 round. It also updated the actual usage of each state's nomination quotas through 31 December 2023.
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English Australia has today released a Fact Sheet on its official website regarding changes to the English-language requirements for the 485 and 500 student visas.
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Heading into 2024, reforms to both the Subclass 500 Student visa and the 485 Temporary Graduate visa are set to take effect — some in early 2024, some mid-year — with no firm dates announced yet.
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Employer sponsorship has been booming since mid-2023. Most people looking into it know very little about how it works, so the same questions come up again and again in our consultations. And because it involves an employment relationship, prospective applicants are even more anxious about all the issues it might raise.
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Early Childhood Teaching, Nursing, and Social Work (the so-called "Three Migration Treasures") have long been top migration courses, but each comes with its own entry barriers or skills-assessment hurdles.
Read More →Today is the last working day of 2023 for most of you, so as usual we are sharing the good news on visa grants, invitations and skills assessments! Whether it is over the break or in 2024, we hope your own good news arrives soon!
Read More →After a turbulent week, the question of whether offshore online study during COVID satisfies the Australian Study Requirement (ASR) has finally been settled — with double confirmation from both the Department of Home Affairs website and MIA!
Read More →With the 25 November 482 visa reforms now officially in place, the Department has also updated the requirements for the 186 TRT stream. Many applicants, however, are still unclear on the difference between the TRT and 186 DE streams. In this article, Tiffany walks through the key differences between the two streams, along with the best visa choices for applicants with 1-3 years of full-time work experience. A side-by-side comparison chart is included at the end.
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Ever since the Department of Home Affairs updated its definition of "studying in Australia", pandemic-era online classes taken from overseas no longer count toward the in-Australia study-time requirement, and huge numbers of students applying for the 485 visa or lodging a skilled migration claim have been hit in wave after wave!
Read More →Hong Kong Immigration has recently released application and approval numbers for all talent admission schemes. As of 31 October this year, 184,000 applications had been received across the various talent schemes, with 115,000 approvals — an approval rate of roughly 63%.
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